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(Video) The Leatherman Tread Bracelet : 25 Tools You Wear on Your Wrist
[Product]
2015/01/25 11:06
Leatherman Announces Iits Tread Multi-tool Bracelet. Leatherman multi-tools can certainly come in handy, but they are one more thing that has to be stuffed in a pocket or hung on a belt. That's where the Leatherman Tread comes in. It's a stainless steel bracelet that incorporates 25 tools within its links. Additionally, because none of those tools are knives, it shouldn't cause problems going t...
Fun Package Delivers Monthly Projects to Get Kids Coding
[Business]
2015/01/25 11:05
Bitsbox is a subscription service that gives kids a choice of fun app projects to create each month.We’ve already seen platforms such as LittleBits and Sharetribe convert complicated programming projects into accessible tasks that can be completed by budding coders of any level. The benefits of this are clearly huge, but two former Google employees are determined to make such shortcuts obsolet...
New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed at Treating Smoking Addiction
[Tech]
2015/01/25 11:04
A vaccine currently in development may be more effective at keeping nicotine molecules from acting on the brain.If you're a smoker who's trying to quit, you may recall hearing about vaccines designed to cause the body's immune system to treat nicotine like a foreign invader, producing antibodies that trap and remove it before it's able to reach receptors in the brain. It's a fascinating idea, b...
Cabinet - Lifestyle Customized Storage Device
[Design]
2015/01/25 11:03
Check out their compact ‘library book style’. Sweet!If you are as clumsy as me, then your USB Sticks, SD Cards and Memory drives are all placed in an organized pile of chaos at the back of your drawer. Given the varied sizes, the point of organizing this set of devices in one place is a task. To make it easy, we have here the Cabinet, a modular HDD, USB, and SD CARD storage with integrated de...
(PDF) Baidu Built a Supercomputer for Deep Learning
[Tech]
2015/01/22 11:30
Chinese search engine company Baidu says it has built the world’s most-accurate computer vision system, dubbed Deep Image, which runs on a supercomputer optimized for deep learning algorithms. Baidu claims a 5.98 percent error rate on the ImageNet object classification benchmark; a team from Google won the 2014 ImageNet competition with a 6.66 percent error rate.In experiments, humans achieved...
(Video) Microsoft’s New Holographic Nerd Helmet Is Awesome
[Tech]
2015/01/22 11:30
At an event held for the media at its corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a face computer that blends holographs into your world using see-through lenses. And it is somewhat remarkable.After the morning’s keynote wrapped, the company guided the accumulated technology press through a series of demos using incomplete hardware and software. The hardware we used w...
One57 - New York's Most Expensive Penthouse Just Sold for $100 Million
[Design]
2015/01/22 11:30
New York real estate is soaring, and there's no better proof than One57.One of the penthouses in the 1,004-foot-tall residence has officially closed for $100.5 million, making it the most expensive apartment ever sold in NYC and the first to surpass $100 million.Located on the 89th and 90th floors, the penthouse has 11,000 square feet, six bedrooms, a steam room, a library, and an indoor movie...
(Video) How Starwood Hotels Plans to Redesign the Check-In Process
[Business]
2015/01/22 11:30
Loyalty rewards program debuts new technology: the first-ever keyless room entry.Imagine the typical check-in process of your holiday vacation: after airport security and a long flight, you arrive at the hotel lobby and join a number of guests in line for the front desk. During peak travel hours, you wait until an associate is available to greet you, request your ID and credit card and confirm...
Facebook's Mobile Ad Revenue Will Completely Dwarf Its Desktop Revenue Next Year
[Business]
2015/01/22 11:29
Facebook’s mobile ad revenue is growing at an astonishing rate and it’s showing no sign of let-up.For a company that admitted in its 2012 IPO filing it did not “generate any meaningful revenue” from its mobile products, Facebook has truly pivoted.We already know that in 2013 45% of Facebook’s $6.99 billion in full-year ad revenue was derived from mobile ads. But by 2016 Facebook’s worldwi...
